Towards a Critique of Cultural Reason

This book seeks to develop a Kantian perspective on the theory of culture, based on the notion of the regulative judgement and the idea of an exemplar in Kant's Critique of Judgement .

After a brief critical discussion of the Marxist view of the relation between culture and politics, the author develops a theory of discourse which he believes would enable us to understand how meanings may transcend contexuality and function as exemplars having a symbolic rather than merely a significant context.

The book also deals with such themes as the Kantian notion of critique, Dilthey's project of a hermeneutics of historical reason, Ricoeur's perspective on speech and textual discourse and Husserl's reflections on the life-world.

Moral philosophers, political scientists.